A sadder chappy, but there'll be more fluff in the next chappy! That's a promise! Please R&R!
Once again... Izumi, Kouji, you'll have to say it
Kouji: I'm not in the mood… you say it.
Izumi: Please read and review!
Me: Kouji! Say your line!
Kouji: its not my line, it's yours, your just lazy
Me: 'pouts' meanie... fine... I do not own digimon...
Kouji: and?
Me: and i do not own Kouji...
Kouji: Good.
Izumi: BECAUSE HE'S MINE!
Me: um… sure… hehe…'sweatdrops'
Chapter 2
Kouji's POV
Kazemon and I stood back to back in our battle stances. I heard a sound and the next thing I knew, a shadow came straight at me. I quickly realized it as a Black Wargreymon, but before I could react, Kazemon jumped in front of me, blocking the attack. Reverting back to Izumi, she fell to the floor, her head hitting the ground hard. She had a small wound on her stomach and she was unconscious.
"Izumi!" I screamed, feeling both worried and angry at the same time. 'Black Wargreymon would pay with his life!' I thought furiously. I evolved to Beowolfmon and destroyed Black Wargreymon with one attack. Scanning his digicode quickly, I de-digivolved and ran to Izumi's side. My mind raced. She wasn't seriously hurt, but her injury was my fault. I growled, feeling something wet, roll down my cheek, something I've never felt in a long time. Tears. Tears of guilt, worry and any other emotion one was supposed to feel when someone important to them was hurt.
Gently, I scooped her into my arms and stood up. I wanted to search for Takuya and the others, but after a minute or two of no progress, I digivolved into Kendogarurumon, deciding that I should find a safe place to let Izumi rest first. Placing the unconscious girl onto my back, I zoomed out of the forest. Takuya and the others will have to wait for later.
It was starting to get dark as I saw a cave a little to my left. I sighed. It was better than nothing. Once inside, I gently placed Izumi onto the floor, getting up to gather some firewood for heat. She whimpered lightly as I got up. I looked her. Sighing, I sat back down by the wall of the cave. I guess there just won't be a fire tonight. Scooping her into my lap, her whimpering stopped immediately and I couldn't help but smile. I took off my blue jacket and placed it over her, being careful not to wake her. I sat their for a while just staring at her sleeping figure until sleep finally consumed me.
Izumi's POV
I awoke, feeling a pair of arms around me, holding me protectively. My head ached and my stomach hurt, but for some deranged reason, I felt very happy. I opened my eyes and blushed ten shades of red, seeing Kouji's sleeping face inches from my own. He had given me his jacket and was slightly shivering. My memories came rushing back to me as I remembered being knocked unconscious by Black Wargreymon. Kouji must've defeated the Black Wargreymon on his own. Snuggling deeper into his arms, he stopped shivering. I smiled. Resting my head on his chest, I fell asleep once more.
Kouji's POV
I felt Izumi shifting in my arms but I kept my eyes closed, deciding to pretend that I was still asleep. One less awkward moment means one less chance of me doing or saying something stupid. Izumi shifted around a little more and eventually snuggled into me and rested her head on my chest. I did my best to hide my blush but I could feel heat rising to my cheeks. I opened one eye to peer down at her to see if she had noticed. She had closed her eyes again.
I breathed out a sigh of relief, releasing a breath I didn't know I had been holding. I held her for a few more hours while she slept, until the sun eventually rose and I felt her shift once again.
Looking down, I saw her aquamarine eyes looking curiously into mine. She was wearing a light pink blush on her cheeks. I too, immediately felt heat rushing to my cheeks, so I turned away, hoping she had not noticed. She shifted again so I turned to her to see what she was doing, only to feel her lips crush against mine. My heart raced, my mind stopped and I completely froze. A second later, she pulled away, blushing the deepest shade of red. She quickly explained that she was trying to kiss my cheek but when I turned towards her so suddenly, she accidentally kissed me… somewhere else. Blushing madly, we jumped apart and looked away.
A moment later, I decided to I steal a glance at her, only to see her staring at me. Our eyes met and for a strange reason, I felt myself mesmerized by her aqua-coloured eyes. Almost as if on reflex, our faces slowly inched closer and I unconsciously licked my lips, nearly waiting for the moment. I saw her close her eyes before I closed my own. And this time, as our lips met, I actually 'unfroze' my mind enough to kiss her back. Our kiss lasted a while until we finally pulled apart to breath, both of us turning twenty shades of red. Our eyes met once more, but we didn't pull away. We simply stared at each other, smiling stupidly. She was just so cute with that blush.
Izumi's POV
The silence was killing me; we were in such an awkward moment. Not that I didn't enjoy it of course, I just needed to say something is all. But the last time I tried to start a conversation… that didn't turn out so well.
"Kouji-" I finally started but was once again interrupted.
"Izumi!" Kouji yelled as he pushed me down for the third time these past two days.
'My god! What's with the interruptions every time I try to bring up a conversation?' I thought, slightly irritated for having wasted time to think of a topic of conversation.
I quickly snapped out of my thoughts as I felt the ground shake. There was loud crash and the next thing I saw, was a nice round boulder sitting where I was sitting seconds ago if not for Kouji.
'What's going on? Another attack?' I panicked mentally. We looked at each other. Our gazes met again for the fourth time? I had lost count… but neither of us blushed this time. We just looked each other straight in the eye, smiled, and got up.
For safer reasons, we decided to get out of the cave as soon as possible. Running out of the cave at our top paces, we came to a halt at the opening, seeing three more Black Wargreymon staring angrily at Kouji. Had the Black Wargreymon Kouji destroyed yesterday been one of their friends or family?
Deciding it was unimportant; my mind went back to the business at hand. Digivolving into our human forms, we fought the Black Wargreymon.
"Tempest Twist!" I yelled, sending a fury of kicks towards the first digimon.
"Howling Laser!" yelled Lobomon as he shot a beam from his arm towards the second digimon. Being outnumbered, we decided to slide evolve to our beast spirit forms. Lobomon's form was quickly replaced by that of Kendogarurumon's as my form butterfly form shifted to Zephyrmon's.
Continuing to fight the dinosaur-like digimon, we unleashed more attacks until I felt a presence behind me. Quickly, I turned around, coming face to face with the ultimate attack of the third Black Wargreymon. I wanted to scream, but could not find my voice to. Being unable to get out of the way, I prepared for the worst. None came.
My eyes shot open in surprise to see Kendogarurumon in front of me, saving me from the attack. This time, I found my lost voice and screamed as his form turned black and a fractal code appeared around him.
The Black Wargreymon scanned his digicode, and Kouji's form slowly disappeared. Tears streamed down my face. Kouji! He was gone! And it was my entire fault! The Black Wargreymon scanned the rest of his data, his form disappearing completely. I closed my eyes, unable to look, until I heard a soft 'clack' of something falling to the ground. Looking up, I saw Kouji's bandana, his digivice and a navy blue digi-egg where he had stood. The digi-egg! That must be Kouji! 'To save Kouji, I just need to protect his digi-egg!' I thought happily, begging with all my heart that I wasn't wrong.
I sent an attack towards the Black Wargreymon, temporarily distracting him as I picked up Kouji's digi-egg and all of his belongings. Placing them safely behind a tree, I faced the Black Wargreymon, giving him my best death glare. If looks could kill, the three Black Wargreymon would drop dead right there. Eyes flaring as I sent my attack, mainly powered through my anger. The Black Wargreymon roared in agony and their fractal codes appeared. I scanned them with no hesitation whatsoever.
De-digivolving, I ran to what I had hoped was Kouji's digi-egg. Picking up the blue egg in my arms, I inspected it as well as I could through my blurry eyes. It was a dark navy blue colour with a white wolf going across the side of it.
Hugging it to my chest, I picked up the rest of Kouji's belongings, putting both his Digivice and his bandana into my pocket.
I walked back towards the area where we had split up the day before. Hopefully, Takuya and the others would be smart enough to wait there for me.
I feel sad for Izumi... but I'll make the next chapter a happy one! So please review!